On October 1, 2010, Daniel Pipes published this rather lengthy monologue on his blog: http://www.danielpipes.org/8913/two-decades-rushdie-rules. Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and a columnist at National Review. He delivered an earlier version of this text on receiving an award from the Danish Free Speech Society.

This monologue is so important, I believe, that it needs the widest possible dissemination. Mr. Pipes graciously granted permission for reproduction of his words on TDH.

With our Secretaries of State and Treasury both off in Beijing kissing all the ChiCom butt they can manage, Mr. Smith tipped me off to a piece by Jason Steck over at The Compass on the interconnected nature of the U.S. and Chinese economies.

Mr. Smith is concerned about the skyrocketing magnitude of our debt. I say you have to examine both sides of the equation.

Citizenship is what we DO, not a stamp on our birth certificates. And the larger Government grows, the fewer Citizens there are in any meaningful sense, as those who remain are transformed into wrinkly, post-adolescent wards of the State.

This report comes from primary sources - Naval Surface Warfare Center Norfolk and Special Operations Command Tampa. The writer has a point of view, and the report is not "official." Nevertheless, it presents a very interesting and different story of the incident off the Somali coast.

In its most concerned and strongly worded press release to date, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) today issued the following grim assessment of the impact of the planned Obama administration climate change policies on the citizens of the US and the world. From the Center Director, John L. Casey.